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Jeff Lyons, son ol former New York Post
columnist Leonard Lyons, is new film
critic for WFSB-TV. the Post-Newsweek
CBS Hartford affiliate. He continues to provide
commentary for WPIX-TV and WCBS-
Radio, both in New York.
The University of Connecticut Film Society
sponsored a double bill. "The Ruling
Class" and "The White Sheik," on a recent
Wednesday night in the campus Life Sciences
Building. Admission was $1. Normally,
the society sponsors single-feature programs
. . . Cinestudio, at Hartford's Trinity
College, ran a four-evening engagement of
the French import, "The Tall Blond Man
With One Black Shoe," charging $2 general
admission and $1.50 for students . . . The
classic "Henry V" was shown as a free attraction,
open to the public, in Webster
Hall at West Hartford Public Library on a
Thursday night at 7:30.
VERMONT
photo coverage of film openings is rare in
the Vermont press. The trade was
heartened to see a choice-positioned, fourcolumn
photo of lines waiting to see Universal's
"The Other Side of the Mountain"
at the Merrill Jarvis downtown Flynn Theatre,
Burlington, appearing in the Burlington
Free Press, largest newspaper in the state.
The SBC Management Corp., which has
had considerable success with a- 3-D film
policy at its Cinema City in Hartford, expanded
the plan to the Burlington Plaza 2.
Richard J. Wilson, vice-president, provided
an imaginative pre-opening ad campaign
tied to the new policy in the complex's
auditorium two.
UA's "Rocky" went into a record-shatter-
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J*he $5-per-carload plans, increasingly in
vogue in other portions of these New
England states, got into metropolitan
Springfield, with the Memorial Drive-in.
West Springfield, advertising the charge for
a triple Avco Embassy package comprised
of "The Cassandra Crossing." "The Sailor
Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" and
"The Last Grenade."
Flaherty Film Seminar
Set for Aug. 27-Sept. 3
CHESTNUT HILL,
MASS. — The annual
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar will be
held here August 27-September 3 on the
campus of Pine Manor Junior College,
according to an announcement by William
Sloan, president of International Film Seminars,
sponsors of the event.
The seminar, now in its 23rd year, is
named after a pioneer among filmmaker;
who used the camera to reveal the humar
condition. Its purpose is to examine film:
made in the spirit of exploration and it ii
aimed at critics, teachers, librarians ant
other professionals as well as filmmakers. '
Programing will be under the directioi
of Grant Munro, noted film director, pro
ducer and animator with the National Filn
Board of Canada, and Ben Levin, filmmak
er and assistant professor of communica
tions, Temple University.
Filmmakers interested in submitting thei
work for program consideration should ad
dress inquiries to Ben Levin, Department c
Radio, TV & Film, School of Communic;
tions & Theatre, Annenberg Hall, Tempi
University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122. Phon
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(215) 787-1496. Canadian filmmakei I
should contact Munro at the NFB of Car1 •
ada, PO Box 6100, Station A, Montrea
Quebec H3C 3H5. Phone (514) 333-3252.
Closing date for applications is July 15.
Among those scheduled to participate ai
Marcel Ophuls, who presented "The So
row and the Pity" and "A Sense of Los:
in 1972 and will return with "The Memoi
of Justice"; Barbara Kopple with her hig'
ly-acclaimed documentary "Harlan Count
U.S.A.", and Alain Tanner, noted Swi
filmmaker, who is known in this count
for "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Ye
2000."
Salem Runs Chaplin Film
SALEM, MASS.—"Easy Street," starri;
Charlie Chaplin, and "Long Pants," wi
Harry Langdon, were screened at the Salei
Old Town Hall on a recent Monday nig
at 7:30 p.m. There was "live" piano accoipaniment.
Admission was free and op,i
to
the public.
'Slap Shot' Is Previewed
LAWRENCE, MASS. — UniversiS
"Slap Shot" was sneak-previewed in autorium
four of the Redstone Showcase*
on a recent Friday night at 7:30, with ie
auditorium's current attraction, Warnts
"A Star Is Born" screened before and afr
the special showing.
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Western Massachusetts premieres included
20th-Fox's "Wizards," Avco Embassy's
"The Domino Principle," and Universal's
"Airport '77."
The Air-Line Drive-in, Chicopee, ran a
five-feature show composed of "The Love
Pill," "Little Girl, Big Tease," "The Teacher,"
"Wild Riders" and "Cinda and Conna."
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